Taoism and Lao Tzu
What truly matters is consistently focusing on the words we speak and the heartfelt meaning behind them. It’s when we become what I call a “realizing person” that we ground ourselves in the reality we’re meant to experience. 
Change is important because it connects us to the “Sage-Mind” and opens us to the timeless wisdom found in all schools of thought.
Understanding change helps us see how it takes root within us and speaks through us. This creative force links us to the essence of spirit, guiding our connection to our true nature. As the transformation we seek already lives within each of us, waiting to be rediscovered and built on again.
For me, reflecting and writing about change is a way to move beyond my earthly self—learning how to become who I once was so I can return to being that person again, in sync with the memories I have forgotten. It’s a reminder of what becomes of our second nature, leading to an eternal knowing.
Once achieved, returning to the clouds and taking my place among the dragons again. It’s something more than just hyperbole—an obvious, intentional exaggeration or an extravagant figure of speech not meant to be taken literally, like saying “to wait an eternity”. But to go there guided by spirit to what and who we are yet to become.
As we strive for our greatest goals and ultimate destiny, we’re really seeking the peace within us that makes our eternal bond with them the only plans worth holding onto. 
Oh, to ride the high clouds again, drifting from star to star, knowing Heaven as my peers gather joyfully to welcome me once more. And so, my sacred journey continues…
Who can really say what role, if any, we’re meant to play in this moment? Maybe it’s just a unique journey we’ve created for ourselves. A path of awareness meant for our own growth and transcendence.
Perhaps not fitting into the status quo is exactly what my own fate intends, and with that, the only thing we can truly change is within us as we flow through the river of time. With what I’ve learned, we are meant to become this river, moving through history without needing to know beginnings or endings, only the moments and time spent in between.
Before we go on with Verse number 12 of 81, it’s worth noting that the title of the book we’re adding commentary to—Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching—is my own version, titled “Thoughts on Becoming a Sage: The Guidebook to Leading a Virtuous Life”. As referred to above, it’s important to note that Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching in the sixth century BC.
Verse 12 – Insuring Final Outcomes
Staying within the realm of what our natural abilities provide as if Chuang Tzu. Drinking from the river of life only that which fills our stomach.
Maintaining an even temperament. Letting events happen for their own sake and remaining unaffected by space and time.
Letting the natural course or order of events simply occur. Knowing the final outcome will be just as it should be. While sitting back as the knowing sage, seemingly unaffected but in control.
Choose internal reality over external illusion.
As your eyes cannot truly see, your ears cannot truly hear, your mouth cannot truly taste, your mind cannot help feeling and your body cannot stop moving.
Let these attributes simply stay in the background and observe as you listen to the still small voice within as you have been taught and nothing can harm you. Do not lose your way because of what has caught your attention.
第12节 坚持到底
象庄子那样，量力而行，渴饮生命之河。保持心平气和，顺其自然，不为时空所扰。
自然而然，须知最终的结局不为人的意志而转移。作为一个聪明的圣人，悠悠自在，表面上不动声色，实际上却操纵一切。
选择内在的真实，而不是外表的华丽。因为你目不能视，耳不能听，口不能尝，脑不能想，身体却不能不动。
让这些属性退居幕后。在倾听自己微小的心声时观察，因为你曾受教于老子，再也没有什么可以伤害你，不要因为分心而迷路。
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